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Google NASA Partnership Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the word-hit-the-paper dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google & NASA announced their partnership today with many benefits. The director of a NASA site said 'Just a few examples are new sensors and materials from collaborations on bio-info-nano convergence, improved analysis of engineering problems, as well as Earth, life and space science discoveries from supercomputing and data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into the space program.'" Update 23:51 by SM As pointed out by so many readers the GoogleNASA site originally linked was completely bogus.

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  1. Well that's just funny... by pclminion · · Score: 3, Informative

    A friend who works at Google took me on a tour of a few of their buildings a little over a year ago. It was the weekend and hardly anybody was there, but I did remember noticing a big whiteboard (Google has thousands of whiteboards, which seem to be the primary medium for communication and development of ideas) with the headline "Google And NASA in 2007" at the top. I remember thinking at the time how odd that seemed. But it looks like out of all the zany ideas at Google this was one that actually survived for over a year and came to fruition.

  2. The site is running on IIS 6.0 by ranperry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google? IIS 6.0? Helllooooo?

  3. Re:Wait...date confusion? by PerfectSmurf · · Score: 5, Informative

    I noticed that too. Seems someone posted the url for a year old announcement instead of the current one http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html

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  4. PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    GoogleNasa is NOT an official Google site, and is just phishing for Google account information. What the fuck, Slashdot - do you EVER look at these links? Such incompetence...

    1. Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN by chrisckemp · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hi, sorry for the confusion, I am Chris C. Kemp, Director of Business Development at NASA Ames Research Center. I originally created the site as a "neutral ground" for NASA employees and Google employees to collaborate (we're trying to experiment with new ways of doing business). I paid for and set the site up myself which is why it is listed under my name to minimize the "bureaucracy" We were not ready to release/announce the site, and after getting slashdotted, Google requested that we take the site down, which I did.

  5. Mod parent up! by FhnuZoag · · Score: 3, Informative

    Checking whois leads to Chris C Kemp: (Notice website similarities)

    http://www.chrisckemp.com/

    This guy doesn't seem to have any connections to google or NASA, true, though I don't know if phishing is an accurate accusation.

    But be careful, folks.